Federal jury convicts man in armed carjacking of 73-year-old woman

A 24-year-old Milwaukee man has been convicted in the 2015 carjacking of a 73-year-old woman.

A federal jury on Thursday found Broderick A. Moore guilty of two felonies, carjacking and using a firearm during a violent crime, officials announced Friday.

Moore faces up to 15 years for the carjacking conviction, and a mandatory minimum seven years — and as much as life — for the gun offense at his sentencing in November.

According to the U.S. Attorney's office, Moore testified at trial that he was not involved in the carjacking.

Two co-defendants, Sean Harvey and Robert Ellis, pleaded guilty to the same charges and are awaiting sentencing.

According to court records, the victim had just dropped her husband off for a seniors softball game at Wick Field Park in the 5000 block of W. Vliet St. on July 16, 2015. As she parked her Toyota Avalon, someone got in the passenger side door, pointed a gun at her and demanded the keys. The woman got out and called 911 as the thief drove off.

Police responded to the woman's home within an hour, but her other car, a Honda Civic, the keys to which were on her ring of keys in the ignition of the Toyota, had already been stolen. Because her purse was also in the car, thieves tried accessing her bank account but were denied.

Harvey, who was seen driving the stolen Honda Civic that same day, was arrested a few days later. Police seized a different car Harvey had been driving that day, and Moore later contacted police to get it back, saying it was his.

The victim's Toyota, now with tinted windows, was found 10 days later. She eventually identified Moore as the man who had carjacked her.